Building Mount Everest
of Zoe Mason King (Goodreads Author)
Description
World War II has ended but British colonial traditions are silently at war with an Australia whose identity is maturing relentlessly. This network of tales is told by a near-sighted child, half-British, half-European, certain she can make peace in her family and within the culture. Neither her culture nor her family is ready for peace. This haunting novel spans wars, continents, and the Great Depression. It spins a strange future from old loves, loyalties, and secrets. A free-spirited bride shapes herself into convention. A grandparent's death reaches across time and continents. An officer faces civilian life. A mother betrays her daughter. Reality is more dangerous than imagination; religion, than sex. Reserve shrouds fact and prejudice. A sweater, glasses, letter, shard: each changes the course of a life. A girlsâ school breeds strictures, loves, betrayals. A religious meeting forces impossible choices. A motherâs secret, long held, ordains a daughterâs life. A grasshopper, moth, puppy: each can end a childhood and unfold truths and passions, rarely simple. Throughout, the great heart of Australia beats in each life and decision. And a young girlâs widening world reminds us that we each grow because ofâand in spite ofâfamily and culture. Like Australia, we are destined to wound and be wounded, to heal, to become ourselves.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 452 pages
- Publisher Bridgewater Press
- Publication Date June 1st 2015
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780996142700
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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